Polls: Society & Politics

You work distributing food in your community - you can either be fair to everyone, or merciful to those that need it. NOT both - please choose.

Happy International Womens Day... for some. For others, it's a nightmare life apparently.

5000+ women gone missing or murdered. What?

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2021-11-01/how-states-are-addressing-the-missing-indigenous-women-crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States

GAG/internet sucks sometimes... had to type this twice.

My dad died in jail and my mom disowned me after having an affair because her man didn’t want me in her life.

Data via Google trends

I think it should be

Some recent laws are going through the court system and they’re arguing the Supremacy Clause again. Which in the constitution says federal govt has supremacy, but then contradicts itself to say states have power too. (Damn the founders!)

Personally I don’t see the point in 50 separate governments rather than one in DC. It’s still run by our representatives.

I’ve moved my extended family from state to state and it is a fckin nightmare transferring Medicaid and Social Security between states, because each one allocates it differently. If I worked directly with the fed agencies, it’d have been over in two seconds.

But this is the original divide in our country that led to a Civil War that still didn’t decide it.

Turkey is now referred to as Türkiye.

In April 2022, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked the international community to recognize his nation by its traditional name, spelled “Türkiye” and pronounced Tour-key-yeh.

Many nations and organizations now use Türkiye instead of Turkey. Here's an example from last month:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/02/10/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administrations-response-to-the-earthquakes-in-turkiye-and-syria/

February 10, 2023
FACT SHEET: The Biden-⁠Harris Administration’s Response to the Earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria

In the aftermath of the earthquakes on February 6, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. authorized an immediate U. S. response and directed the heads of federal agencies to rapidly mobilize to assist the Government of Türkiye and humanitarian partners in Syria. ...

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This sort of thing is not without precedent.

For many years, anglophones have called the southwest African nation of Côte d'Ivoire as Ivory Coast. "Côte d'Ivoire" literally is the French translation of Ivory Coast. However, Côte d'Ivoire is a francophone nation having previously been a French colony in Africa. In the mid-1980s, Côte d'Ivoire requested the international community to refer to it by the name Côte d'Ivoire and not as Ivory Coast. For the most part, the international community has which is why you see on maps the name Côte d'Ivoire and not Ivory Coast anymore.

Expect the same thing to happen to maps regarding the transition from Turkey to Türkiye. It seems that Google Maps has just made the change too; I've been waiting for a few weeks.

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As usual, I do not permit Anonymous responses. Be an adult and take responsibility for your actions and that includes when you are giving an opinion.
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Today is W 08 MAR 2023.

Basically says a shooter doesn’t have to retreat. Or back down. Isn’t that life? Why are we so against compromise or walking away?

Comes from my favorite video game of all time Final Fantasy Tactics.

agree or disagree? The meaning is that the upper class (rich) can afford to pay the fine, and will often continue to do the illegal behavior. And therefore The lower class (poor) are the real subjects of the law.

Everyone should be outraged that our Gov't hid evidence to get Trump supporters convicted of crimes they didn't commit. The complete video has Trump telling people to protest peacefully and shows police allowing and helping people inside and into offices. Biden lied. Pelosi lied. Republican Rinos lied. The officer that we told was killed by protesters was alive and shown in video and died at home from a stroke. He was never attacked by protesters. The people charged with crimes were not allowed to use the videos to argue they were innocent. Now their attorney can appeal convictions with these videos. The J6 committee edited the videos to make people look guilty and would not show all of the videos. This is fraud and all the members of the Committee should go to prison for fraud. All the Democratic leaders should go to prison for fraud and lying.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/boy-meets-world-star-ben-savage-officially-announces-run-for-congress_n_6407385de4b079d3eb5e1a18
'Boy Meets World' Star Ben Savage Officially Announces Run For Congress

“Boy Meets World” star Ben Savage officially launched his campaign for Congress on Monday with a pitch for what his potential leadership would bring to the 30th District of California.

Savage filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission in January to run for Congress as a Democrat in 2024. He is seeking the House seat currently held by Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, who announced in late December that he is running for Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat.

Savage, who made a failed bid for the West Hollywood City Council in 2022, detailed on Monday why he’s running for office.

“I’m running for Congress because it’s time to restore faith in government by offering reasonable, innovative and compassionate solutions to our country’s most pressing issues,” the actor wrote on Instagram.

“And it’s time for new and passionate leaders who can help move our country forward,” he continued. “Leaders who want to see the government operating at maximum capacity, unhindered by political divisions and special interests.”

While Savage remains best known as a child star, he interned under Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) in 2003 and studied political science at Stanford University.